This Blog post is going to offer an additional layer of security for customers using the Fedora 12 Operating system on your Cloud server.By using the popular opensource Clam AV software with some modifications , we are going to have it scan all files FTP'd to our fedora 12 server and delete any files that look like malware.

Clam AntiVirus is an open source (GPL) anti-virus toolkit for UNIX, designed especially for e-mail scanning on mail gateways. It comes pre-installed in virtualmin with that template and can be activated within your virtualmin control panel.

For the sake of this tutorial im assuming ProFTP has been set-up on the server.

Installing Clam AV

Login to your server via SSH and run the following commands off your server command line.